The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-23

custom, nor necessity, and whose mysterious
movements are at once the peril and the puzzle
of the investor and the destructive traps for en-
terprise and ambition"
Speaking of emigration and the tendency to-
wards disturbances in crowded populations. he
said:
THE ranks of anarchy and riot number no
Americans. The leaders boldly proclaim that
they can come here. not to enjoy the blessings
OF our liberty and to sustain our institutions,
laws, to cut our throats and divide our property.
Dissatisfied labor furnishes the opportunity to
preach their doctrines and mobs to try their tao
tics. Their recruiting officers are active In ev-
cry city in Europe, and for once despotic gov
ernments give them accord and assistance in Sc
curing and shipping to America the most dan
Rerous elements of their populations The emf
grants of the past have beer of incaculable BEN
eft to q country which needed settlers for its
lands, and skilled and unskilled labor for its
towns and among them have been men who
have filled aud adorned the highest position of
power and trust The officers of the govern
ment report that there is falling
farmers, mechanics and Trained nai 'su workers.
and their places are occupied by elements which
must drift into and demoralize labor centers al
ready overstocked and coneested, or fill the high
ways and poorhouses. We do not wish to pro
hibit emigration, but our laws should be rigidly
revised so that we may at least have some voice
to become the dumping-g ground of the world for
its vicious or ignorant, or worthless, dis
eased. We will welcome. as always. all patriots
fleeing from oppression, all who will contribute
to the strength of our government and tho devel-
opment of our resources. and we will freely grant
to all who become citizens equal rights and priv
ileges under the laws and in making them with
the soldiers who saved the Republic, but no
more. There is room in this country for only
one flag and old glory must head the process
Sou or 1t cannot march"
He made strong appeal for an increase Of
our navy. and eulogized the skeleton army and
militia, regarding them as safeguards in all
kinds of trouble OF the professional agitators
he said: Let US take of the Mosts, the
Spies and the Schwabs; and the press. the plat
form, the school, the church and the English
language will make honest citizens of their fol-
lowers and their descendants. Every man who
leads temperate and industrious life. and
ganizes himself into an anti-poverty society of
one. has secured his independence and individual
prosperity, and become champion of order and
bulwark of law"
Reviewing at length the wonderful achieve
ments of the Army of the Potomac from it's
ganization by Mcclellan through all its changea
of commanders and vicissitudes of war, he
comes down to its closing months under
Grant and says:
cat last this immortal army of Cromwellian
descent of Viking ancestry. and the blood OK
Brian Boru had at its head great captain who
had never lost a battle and whom President Lin
coin had freed from political meddling and the
interference of the civil authorities Every
morning for thirty days the orders to
storm the works in 'front.' and every evening for
thirty nights the survivors moved to the COM
mand. BY the right flank forward march, and
at the end of that fateful month, with sixty
thousand comrades dead wounded in the
Wilderness. the Army of the Potomac once
more after four years. saw the spires of Rich
mond. Infiexible of purpose. insensible to suf
fering, Injured to fatigue and reckless of danger.
1t rained blow on blow upon its heroic but stag
gerine foe, and the world gained new. and
better, and freer and more enduring Republic
than it had ever known in the surrender at APP
pomattox.
when Linec1u, and Grant, and Sherman,
firmly holding behind them the vengeful pas
sions of the civil war. put out their victorious
arms to the South and said we are brethren, this
generous and patriotic army joined IN the glad
acclaim and welcome with their fervent Amen
twenty-five years have come and gone since
you marched down Pennsylvania avenue past
the peoples represents tives, to whom you and
your Western comrades there committed tho
you had saved and the liberties yor
had redeemed; past Americans from whose
you had wiped with your blood the
only stain sand made it the proudest of earthly
titles. Call the roll. The names reverberats
from earth to heaven. All present or accounted
for Here the living answer for the dead, there
the spirits of the dead answer for the living.
AS God musters them out on earth he enrola
them above, scd the Republic marches down
the ages accommodating power and spendor with
zach succeeding century, the van will be led by
the Army of the Potomac"